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AALBORG.
Chap. XXXV.
CHAPTER XXXV.
Aalborg or Eel Castle — Its armes parlantes — Death of King John —
Jens Bang and the miser’s daughter — The Agger Canal — Skipper
Clemens, leader of the Vendel boers — Hog family — Their high and
ancient descent — Coat of Jørgen Bille — Great bog of Jutland —
Børglum and Bishop Crump — The lady of Asdal and the flitch of
bacon.
AALBORG.
June 28th.—We are at Aalborg, Eel Castle—simple
people those early Scandinavians, with their Flounder
’ Castles and their eels; no Tonquebec here—no Chateau
Gaillard in this country—all plain speaking; and
here we are on the Liimfiorde, within two days’
journey from Skagen, which people prophesied we
should never reach. My first impression of Aalborg
as we entered the town was favourable: old houses,
antique and respectable-looking; narrow streets; and
here and there a running Aa (I can’t say river, and
won’t insult the natives by calling it stream), three
of which pass through the city—Øster Aa, Vester Aa,
and Blegdams Aa by name—each separate stream
contributing as its share an eel to the heraldic bearings
of the town—three red eels on a field or. The banks of
the Liimfiorde are here flat; but an expanse of water is
always pleasing to the eye; it runs from liere four
Danish miles down to Hals.*
* Where, in a.d. 965, Harald Graafeld, King of Norway, son of
Queen Gunhild, was assassinated by Guld Harald, later murdered
himself by Hakon Jari.
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